[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village
of Wild Rose. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
No person shall willfully injure or intentionally deface, destroy,
or unlawfully remove, take, or meddle with any property of any kind
or nature within the Village, and belonging to the Village or its
departments, the school district, or to any private person, without
the consent of the owner or proper authority.
B.
Pursuant to § 895.035(2), Wis. Stats., the parents of an
unemancipated minor shall be liable for the damage of property caused
by the willful, malicious or wanton act of such child. Such liability
shall not exceed $5,000.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1-2, Adoption
of Code)]
No person shall throw any glass, refuse, waste, filth or other
litter upon the streets, alleys, highways, public parks or other property
of the Village, or upon property within the Village owned by the school
district, or any private person, or upon the surface of any body of
water within the Village limits.
No person shall have or permit on any premises owned or occupied
by him/her any open cisterns, cesspools, wells, unused basements,
excavations or other dangerous openings. All such places shall be
filled, securely covered or fenced in such manner as to prevent injury
to any person, and any cover shall be of a design, size and weight
that the same cannot be removed by small children.
No person shall leave or permit to remain outside of any dwelling,
building or other structure or within any unoccupied or abandoned
building, dwelling or other structure under his/her control in a place
accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox,
refrigerator or other container which has an airtight door or lid,
snap lock or other locking device which may not be released from the
inside without first removing said door or lid, snap lock or other
locking device from said icebox, refrigerator or container, unless
such container is displayed for sale on the premises of the owner
or his/her agent and is securely locked or fastened.
A.
Whoever intentionally alters indicia of price or value of merchandise, or takes and carries away, transfers, conceals or retains possession of merchandise held for resale by a merchant without consent, and with intent to deprive the merchant permanently of possession or the full purchase price, may be penalized as provided in Subsection D.
B.
The intentional concealment of unpurchased merchandise which continues
from one floor to another, or beyond the last station for receiving
payments in a merchant's store, is evidence of intent to deprive the
merchant permanently of possession of such merchandise without paying
the purchase price thereof. The discovery of unpurchased merchandise
concealed upon the person or among the belongings of another is evidence
of intentional concealment on the part of the person so concealing
such goods.
C.
A merchant or merchant's adult employee who has probable cause for
believing that a person has violated this section in his/her presence
may detain such person in a reasonable manner, for a reasonable length
of time, to deliver him/her to a peace officer or to his/her parent
or guardian if a minor. The detained person must be promptly informed
of the purpose for the detention and may make phone calls, but he/she
shall not be interrogated or searched against his/her will before
the arrival of a police officer, who may conduct a lawful interrogation
of the accused person. Compliance with this subsection entitles the
merchant or his/her employees effecting the detention to the same
defense in any action as is available to a peace officer making an
arrest in the line of duty.
No person shall place garbage or recyclables at the edge of
the street or roadside for weekly pickup, more than 24 hours prior
to such scheduled pickup. Containers shall be removed from the edge
of the street or roadside no more than 24 hours after such scheduled
pickup.
A.
Burning. Burning of leaves, grass clippings, tree limbs, or other
forms of refuse is permitted, provided that a burning permit has been
obtained and a responsible individual with adequate means of controlling/extinguishing
said fires is present. Burning on any part of roadway surface is strictly
prohibited in the Village of Wild Rose. Campfires and cook fires will
be permitted as long as these fires are in a suitable containment
area such as a fire pit or patio fireplace, and a responsible individual
with adequate means to control and/or extinguish the fire is present.
B.
Disposal of refuse and leaves. Leaves and other forms of refuse such
as fallen or cut tree limbs, shrubs, sticks, plant seeds, seed pods
shall not be allowed to go unattended. It is the responsibility of
the owner or tenant to dispose of these items within 24 hours after
they have been raked, piled, stacked, or collected into a central
location. Owners and tenants may exercise two options for disposing
of leaves and refuse, either by bagging the items or by transporting
the items to the Village compost site.
(1)
Bagging. Except for tree limbs and similar items, all leaves and refuse shall be bagged in outdoor-rated trash bags. Bags shall weigh no more than 50 pounds and contain only biodegradable material that is in its natural state (i.e., wooden, man-made items, such as boards, furniture or their parts, etc., will not be included for pickup.) When utilizing Village pickup, all bags shall be placed at curbside no sooner than 24 hours prior to scheduled pickup. Village pickup is scheduled for every Monday. If Village pickup is missed, it shall be the responsibility of the owner or tenant to dispose of said refuse and/or leaves as outlined in Subsection B(2) below within 24 hours after the scheduled Village pickup would have occurred. The Village will coordinate with the owner or tenant in instances where trees or tree limbs have fallen due to storms.
(2)
Compost site. When utilizing Village compost site, all leaves and
refuse shall be removed from containers, such as paper and plastic
bags, boxes, etc., and deposited at the designated locations within
the site. No paper or plastic bags, boxes or other containers shall
be left at the compost site.
(3)
Compliance. Unattended leaves and refuse is unsightly and unhealthy
and is therefore determined to be a general nuisance and potential
hazard. Compliance with the provisions of this chapter is the responsibility
of all residents of the Village.
(4)
Liabilities and penalties. Any owner or tenant of property located in the Village of Wild Rose is subject to a fine as provided in § 1-1-8, General penalty, plus costs compounded daily, and/or a special assessment tax against their property for failure to comply with §§ 9-3-7A and 9-3-7B.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1-2, Adoption
of Code)]
No person shall store junked or discarded property, including
automobiles, automobile parts, trucks, tractors, refrigerators, furnaces,
wash machines, stoves, machinery, parts of machines that do not work,
wood, bricks, cement blocks or other unsightly debris, except in a
garage or shed which keeps property from the public's view. The Village
Board may issue a permit in exception to this chapter. A seventy-two-hour
written notice will be ordered and, if the order is not complied with,
a citation will be issued to the property owner, or a special tax
will be assessed against the property.
A.
ARCHIVES
LIBRARY
LIBRARY MATERIAL
Definitions. For the purpose of this section, certain words and terms
are defined as follows:
A place in which public or institutional records are systematically
preserved.
The Wild Rose Public Library.
Includes any book, plate, picture photograph, engraving,
painting, drawing, map, newspaper, magazine, pamphlet, broadside,
manuscript, document, letter, public record, microfilm, sound recording,
audiovisual materials in any format, magnetic or other tapes, electronic
data processing records or other tapes, artifacts or other documentary,
written or printed materials, regardless of physical form or characteristics,
belonging to, on loan to or otherwise in the custody of the library.
B.
Possession without consent prohibited. Whoever intentionally takes
and carries away, transfers, conceals or retains possession of any
library material without the consent of a library official, agent,
or employee, and with intent to deprive the library of possession
of the material may be subject to a forfeiture as provided by the
general penalty provisions of this Code.
C.
Concealment. The concealment of library material beyond the last
station for borrowing library material in a library is evidence of
intent to deprive the library of possession of the material. The discovery
of library material which has not been borrowed in accordance with
the library's procedures or taken with consent of a library official,
agent or employee and which is concealed by a person upon the person
or among the belongings of the person or among the belongings of another
is evidence of intentional concealment on the part of the person so
concealing the material.
D.
Detention based on probable cause. An official, adult employee, or
agent of a library who has probable cause for believing that a person
has violated this section in his/her presence may detain the person
in a reasonable manner for a reasonable length of time to deliver
the person to a peace officer or to the person's parent or guardian
in the case of a minor. The detained person shall be promptly informed
of the purpose of the detention and be permitted to make telephone
calls, but shall not be interrogated or searched against his/her will
before the arrival of a peace officer, who may conduct a lawful interrogation
of the accused person. Compliance with this section allows the official,
agent, or employee effecting the detention to the same defense in
any action as is available to a peace officer making an arrest in
the line of duty.
E.
Damaging material prohibited. No person shall mar, deface or in any
other way damage or mutilate any library material.
F.
Return demanded. No person shall fail, on demand, to return any library
material when such demand has been made in accordance with the rules
and regulations duly made and adopted by the Wild Rose Public Library.
No person shall, without lawful authority, open, remove or damage
any coin machine, coin telephone or other vending machine dispensing
goods or services or any part thereof, or possess a key or device
specifically designed to open or break any coin machine, coin telephone
or other vending machine dispensing goods or services or possess a
drawing, print or mold of a key or device specifically designed to
open or break any coin machine, coin telephone or other vending machine
dispensing goods or services within the Village limits.
A.
Damaging of drinking fountains. All persons are hereby prohibited
from breaking or otherwise injuring any bubbler, drinking fountain
or any drinking bubbler or in anyway injuring, soiling, tampering
with or defacing any such bubbler or drinking fountain or placing
dirt, leaves, refuse or matter of any sort in or upon any such bubbler,
drinking fountain or drinking bubbler in any public park, street,
sidewalk or ground or any public building, schoolhouse, hall, museum,
library or branch library of the Village.
B.
Damaging of public property. All persons are hereby prohibited from
breaking or otherwise injuring any tree, shrub or plant; breaking,
soiling or defacing any fountain, statue or other ornamental structure;
or in any way injuring, soiling, damaging or defacing any public building
or public property in any public park, square, sidewalk or ground
in the Village, whether the same shall be owned or held in trust by
said Village for the use of any district of said Village.
C.
Breaking of street lamps or windows. No person shall break glass
in any street lamps or windows of any building owned or occupied by
the Village.
No person within the Village limits shall intentionally cause
damage to any physical property of another without his/her consent.
A.
Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared that the protection
and preservation of the home is the keystone of democratic government;
that the public health and welfare, and the good order of the community
requires that members of the community enjoy, in their homes and dwellings,
a feeling of well-being, tranquility and privacy and, when absent
from their homes and dwellings, carry with them the sense of security
inherent in the assurance that they may return to the enjoyment of
their homes and dwellings; that the practice of picketing before or
about residences and dwellings cause emotional disturbances and distress
to the occupants, obstructs and interferes with the free use of public
sidewalks and public ways of travel, that such practice has, as its
object, the harassing of such occupants; and without resorting to
such practice, full opportunity exists and, under the terms and provisions
of this section, will continue to exist for the exercise of freedom
of speech and other constitutional rights; and that the provisions
hereinafter enacted are necessary for the public interest to avoid
the detrimental results herein set forth and are enacted by the Village
Board pursuant to the provisions of § 61.34(1), Wis. Stats.
B.
Picketing prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to engage
in picketing before or about the residence or dwelling of any individual.
Nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit:
A.
Where prohibited.
(1)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation or for any
officer, member agent, servant or employee of any person, firm or
corporation to distribute or place or cause to be distributed or cause
to be placed any printed or written matter, any sample or device,
dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper booklet
or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of
any matter or literature in or upon any automobile, steps, lawn, driveway
or porch of any private building or residence unless said advertising
material shall be securely fastened at the entrance of any private
dwelling unit in such a manner so that said material will not be likely
to be scattered or blown on or about said premises or onto adjacent
lots or yards or upon the sidewalks, streets, alleys and other public
places within the Village.
(2)
It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute, deposit, place,
throw, scatter or cast any printed or written matter, any sample or
device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine,
paper booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original
or copies of any matter or literature upon any premises where the
owner or occupant has cause to be placed in a position clearly visible
to the distributor a sign or notice bearing the words, "No Advertisement,"
"No Handbills," or any similar notice, indicating in any manner that
the occupants of said premises do not desire to have their right of
privacy disturbed or to have any such handbills left upon such premises.
(3)
It shall be unlawful for any person to distribute, deposit, scatter,
hand out or circulate any printed or written matter, any sample or
device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine,
paper booklet or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original
or copies of any matter or literature in any place, under any circumstances:
(a)
Unless the name and address of the person who printed or the
name and address of the person who printed, wrote, complied or manufactured
the same appears thereon.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1-2, Adoption
of Code)]
(b)
Unless the name and address of the person who caused the same
to be distributed appears thereon; provided, however, that in the
case of a fictitious person or club, in addition to such fictitious
name, the true name and addresses of the owner, managers or agents
sponsoring such handbills shall also appear thereon.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1-2, Adoption
of Code)]
B.
Advertising plastic bag requirements. Distribution of materials at
any dwelling place or apartment in a polyethylene or other type of
flexible plastic container more than four inches in diameter shall
be unlawful, unless the said container is ventilated with at least
two holes not less than 1/4 inch in diameter and is 0.0001 gauge or
more in thickness.
C.
Exceptions. The provisions of this section shall not be deemed to
comply to the distribution of mail by the United States Postal Service
nor to newspapers defined as follows:
(1)
Newspaper. Shall mean and include any newspaper of general circulation
as defined by general law, any newspaper duly entered with the United
States Postal Service in accordance with any federal law or regulation
and any officer as provided by general law; or magazine regularly
published with not fewer than four issues per year and sold to the
public.
In addition to the general penalty of this Code, or any other penalty imposed for violation of any section of this chapter, any person who shall cause physical damage to or destroy any public property shall be liable for the cost of replacing or repairing such damaged or destroyed property. The parent or parents of any unemancipated minor child who violates § 9-3-1 may also be held liable for the cost of replacing or repairing such damaged or destroyed property in accordance with the Wisconsin Statutes.
Rummage and/or garage sales shall be held for no more than three
consecutive days and shall be held no more than three times during
the course of the calendar year. Items not sold shall not remain outside
of a building after each sale has been completed.
